Jeremiah 19:7–12

⁷And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, ⁱand I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives; their ^jcorpses I will give as meat for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. ⁸I will make this city ^kdesolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues. ⁹And I will cause them to eat the ^lflesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair.” ’

^10m“Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you, ¹¹and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: ⁿ“Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot be ¹made whole again; and they shall ^obury them in Tophet till there is no place to bury. ¹²Thus I will do to this place,” says the Lord, “and to its inhabitants, and make this city like Tophet.